Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-06-22
| HISTORY OF THEN, w WEEK.

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This community was thrown into q state
the murder Of Mrs. Nancy Beall wife 81
VIM. =. Beall, q farmer living a.shalf mile
| east Of the Eaton & Camden pike, and 81
miles south Of here Mrs. Beall was. found
! lying face downward in q pool Of blood
that had flown from two bullet holes in
her head, and from cut on the back OF her
/ neck that had almost severed her head from
| her body, which had been done bY an axe
that was found lying by her side. A young
son OF Mrs. Bean was in the house at the
time. He said that the first he knew of the
affair was when he heard shot fred in the
! rooms When he went there he saw three
| short, heavy set men. who ran away,
There is great excitement in the neighbor-
hood, and il the parties who did the deed
| are discovered there will be another lynch
ing. 77sz ~. : -.~
The mysterious wheat-clique at
Chicago met with q disaster on the 14th,
the price Of June wheat dropping from 81
cents 70 Is cents per 1bushel, and the 16 GOO,
go bushels of wheat collected and held at
i Chicago. win now be- sold under the ham
mer, 90 the dispatches state The failure
of the clique principals to forward margins
caused this great break, which is said to
involve losses running as high as $4,000, 600,
catching parties at Chicago, n Milwaukee,
Cincinnati and Duluth. N iss firmly de-
Ueotto ~ Suo1 ~ DtnAS arc !nVOlV0d at.4ny OF
T the points named. It viii take q day or
Two to clear up affairs so that the exact
situation may be known, and settlements
may put things in better shape than they
appeared at the close of business on the
A. special of the 18th, from Point a
La Hache, La, says the brisk east wind of
the past four days has driven the ruinous
salt water Of the gulf up, submerging an the
rice fields from this point to the Quarantine
station, distance of about thirty miles,
and forced it inland up as far as 1achine,
In st. Bernard parish, and all along the east
cannot now be estimated, but if bright sun
shine Follows the subsistence of the foods,
then not head of rice will be made for so
miles along the east bank Of the Mississippi.
The wheat decentralization at Chi
h cago, did not extend to any great extent to
other points on the 18th, prices at New
York, Baltimore and even Cincinnati being
pretty trim, though trading was quiet and
break AtiSt. Paul and Duluth there we're
mo quotations. and no transactions, all
: awaiting the turn of events at Chicago. At
Minneapolis there was no evidence of de-
moralization, on the whole it was thought
the milling interests were improved by the
upheaval at Chicago, s,v,~
The business failures during the last
seuen days number, tor the United States
40, for Canada IS. total 173, against 15O last
week-and 200 for the corresponding week of
last year. In the Eastern and Middle States
the failures are exceptionally light. In the
other sections about the average number
are reported, but in Canada there is a CON
siderable increase, arising mostly in the
maritime provinces.
The business failures during the last
seven days number for the United States,
1873, for. Canada 20; total, 213; compared
ing week of last year, LIS. The increase
noticed this week arises, of course, mainly
through the wheat excitement in Chicago
and the West, in consequence the troubles
seem to be. lighter, than usual in the
county. Ss'>&, r -
The stables of the Lafayette Brewing
company ct st. Louis, Mo-, burned Tuesday
morning with six horses The teamster's
and their families living in the upper part
of the building escaped in their night gar
5ments. Attic same time the Mound City
street car stables were burned with over
800 mules, 800 sets of harness and other,
property. The mules were worth SIS each.
The wheat panic at Chicago con-
inued on the 18th, and there were more fail
ures than the day before. Kershaw & Co.,
the leader Of the clique, failed to pass the
clearing house and that dragged down a
amounts. The market closed at 70071 for
june and 777a for July. n
Dago Joe, a half-breed who shot and
killed Walter Haynes, young white boy,
at Shelby depot, Miss, on the 18th of MAY,
was taken Monday afternoon from the
officers who were conveying him from
Duncan Station, Miss, to the Jail at Austin,
by a crowd of Sc men and hanged to tree
+ The propeller. Champlain of the
Northern Michigan Transportation line,
burned at midnight in Lake Michigan on
the 18th, and % lives were lost by burning
or drowning. The explosion of q lamp in
the freman's room caused the fire and the
boat burned to the waters edge.
The shipment of through freight
from San Francisco for May amounted to
II, 10000 pounds. The total is less by f.
100000 pounds than that for April, caused,
it is said, by the Interstate commerce law.
On the 14th, while drilling in blast
hole which had missed fire at the Paint
River, Mich, mine J. B. Ryan and Harry
Treloar had both heads and arms blown
i. of and their bodies mangled. PIX
At Jamestown, Greene Co., Ohio,
Peter Betters, colored man was lynched
Saturday night for . most aggravated as
sault upon colored woman, aged Is years.
The Kane County, nls., poor house
upon farm at Geneva was burned on the
18th, rendering the eighty inmates home
less. Loss $4,000. =.
By an explosion in the Inman Coal
Mines, four miles from Chattanooga, Tenn,
on the 18th, five English miners were
killed. rs -
At Otter Lake, Mich, the Morning
Star mills were burned on the 18th, partly
insured on a loss OF about sc, 600.
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